Creating a default-fallback page

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ahrenks Reply #1, 13 years, 8 months ago

So basically I have a little draw-by-draw competition app for Facebook, and I'd like to use the Publish dates (from/to) built into the default resource, and the client can simply edit the template variables etc per draw, and choose a start time / end time.

How would I go about creating a default "fallback" page, that would have some sort of "There are no draws available at this time" message.
Obviously enough, the fallback page would display if there were no other published resources.

The URL is always the same, ex: http://mydomain.com/this-app/

Thanks,

Ahren.

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BobRay Reply #2, 13 years, 8 months ago

I'm not completely clear on what you're doing, but if the pages are on a MODX Revolution site and the resources are children of the same folder (let's say the parent folder's ID is 12), this snippet could do it:

$docs = $modx->getCollection('modResource', array('parent' => 12));
if (empty($docs)) {
   $modx->sendRedirect('http://full/url/of/fallback/page');
}
return '';

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ahrenks Reply #3, 13 years, 8 months ago

Hi BobRay,

Thanks for the quick reply, and apologies I wasn't exactly clear but yes I think you're on the right track.

I'll give it a go and let you know if it works.